The Public Lab spectrometry project is an open source community effort to develop low-cost spectrometers for a range of purposes. All open spectrometry hardware and software efforts are welcome here!

Join in by:

• Reading about goals and asking great questions
• Building a basic spectrometer using one of our starter kits
• Trying (and critiquing) our community-made how-to guides
• Posting your own how-to guides and mods
• Building on others’ work; hack and remix the kits to refine and expand them
• Submit your improvements for inclusion in an upcoming starter kit release or add-on
• Serving on a Research Review Group for a 3 month period

Table of Contents

Goals

Experiments

Hardware mods

Builds

Starter kits

Software

Using spectral data